Arrival of 'Frisco Mail

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 127, 3 May 1887, Page 3

Arrival of 'Frisco Mail

MAIL SUMMARY. {.PER TINITED PJIERS ASSOCIATION.! Welli:ngtos, April 30. The Alameda arrived from Sai Francisco. She was <lotain< d one da; on account of the non-arrival of th mails. She encountered heavy gale ' for the first 40 hours. Sonic outrages are apprehendei from &c London Sodaliste during th Jubilee processlori. V ' \ Tfie ; Queen * in tends, _howev<ar, tomaße^u^ % -*9y,a progress through | ine v ,city" as thi geqexatiiwa has' not*een. Hers Maj eat; insists tkat the ceremony shall b \ JbejLd'm .Westminster -Abbey, 'when •'^ike was crowned, and not in St Paul's ■•, iK^^oae in' charge of the celebratioi thai the Queen shall atrin ■ in full state, which, she has not don< since Prtnee Albert's death/ Scotlanc Ireland, and Wales hold aloof frori participation in tllo Jubilee. Mr (Gladstone writes to the Chelset electors under date April 6th : — " Oui adversaries have availed themselvei of the fact that I have taken a large share in placing the Irish problem at »■ ques^oa of practical politics, befort the «oantrj/i» plead it as a personal affair, that it ia not a true conviction) *nd thai the people aite not in genuine sympathy with the justice of Irish demands. A little reserve on my part will Itelp them to be sooner undeceived and to profit more effectively by the teaching. They are already beginning to receive the teaching of events." Mr Davis, editor of a London sheet «atted The Bat, was on March 31st sentenced t* three months' imprisonment, aad fined £500 for libel on a peMB named Peck. The case was tried fcefore Mr Justice Hawkins. Joseph Caldwell, company promoter,' of Telegraph street, has failed. His liabilities are believed to be enormous. He failed once before for £1,000,000. The English public aaidtote «»aced at Lord Tennyson's; Jubilee ode. Tfce verses are called unmusical «nd the phraies awkward and meanimgleiß, such coinages as " Lord Territorial" and "Lord Manufacturer" for example. The •entry on guard at the Nowden ra#yimT»* ia the Chatham Dockyard aotieed, «a tke night of March 27th, a man larking about the plase, who, not replying to tite proper challenge promptly, he bayonetted him in the thigh.. The wounded man was found to be aa employe named Clark, and was float to the Hospital as a suspect. ▲ letter Jtas been received in London from Henry M. Stanley, dated Capetown, March 9th. The letter tubs as follows:— "I found Tippoo Tibb, the uncrowned king of this region, between Stanley Falls and the TanganvikeLake, commanding thousands 'of fighting' Arabs. He was equally^ reaaj to fight or to be emploveoL I chose _ the latter, net on account of his helping me to reach Emm Bey, but to help me in bringing Smin Bey's store of ivory down, which unvalued at £80,000. In the presence of the British Consul I contracted with Tippoo Tib to supply me with one hundred carriers; I aloo, after receiving consent from King Leopold of Belgium, appointed Tippoo Governor of Stanley Falls at a regular salary. SomeMSS of Burns, the Scettish poet, owndd by Gibbon Craig, Esc^, were sold in Edinburgh recently, and realised excellent prices. " The Whistler" fetched 140 guineas ; it oaatamed 2y folio: pages, Lord-fidae-berr being the purcnaser. ■n-v.^vi^;